@sandrablan.bsky.social
Reposted
Zack Polanski calls for a discussion on the legalisation and regulation of drugs and the right in the UK lose their collective shit.
The US Health Secretary gives a bizarre interview in which he says he's not scared of germs because he used to snort coke off toilet seats and...
The US Health Secretary gives a bizarre interview in which he says he's not scared of germs because he used to snort coke off toilet seats and...
a cartoon of spongebob saying " nothing " with his hands in the air
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob saying " nothing " with his hands in the air
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Zack Polanski calls for a discussion on the legalisation and regulation of drugs and the right in the UK lose their collective shit.
The US Health Secretary gives a bizarre interview in which he says he's not scared of germs because he used to snort coke off toilet seats and...
The US Health Secretary gives a bizarre interview in which he says he's not scared of germs because he used to snort coke off toilet seats and...
Reposted
Not a story you will see many mainstream national newspapers leading on, as their proprietors wouldn’t like it.
February 12, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Not a story you will see many mainstream national newspapers leading on, as their proprietors wouldn’t like it.
Reposted
Struggling to find the words to describe the utter reckless vandalism of this sickening move - deliberately making millions of people sicker & less secure in order to enrich billionaire polluters
Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Struggling to find the words to describe the utter reckless vandalism of this sickening move - deliberately making millions of people sicker & less secure in order to enrich billionaire polluters
Reposted
I'm sorry this is just such a fucking appalling government. A bunch of petty disgusting bigots. Fuck them all.
New School Guidance announces:
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
Full bathroom ban.
Full PE ban.
Full school trip accommodation ban.
Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I'm sorry this is just such a fucking appalling government. A bunch of petty disgusting bigots. Fuck them all.
Excellent read.
Keir Starmer used to care about sleaze.
What happened?
What happened?
Starmer used to care about sleaze. What happened?
Reflections on a tumultuous week...
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Excellent read.
Reposted
Nice one Jezza 👏👏👏
February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Nice one Jezza 👏👏👏
Reposted
Scary stuff, and not the only source of oil money influencing UK universities
"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."
Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project
Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
goodlaw.social
February 12, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Scary stuff, and not the only source of oil money influencing UK universities
Reposted
Labour leadership, faced with a choice between electoral reform backed by its own members or retention of a system which risks giving absolute power to a party which doesn’t even believe in democracy as we know it.
Why is this a hard choice?
Why is this a hard choice?
“Support for electoral reform unites Labour Conference…And it’s not just Labour. Among the public, sixty percent of people now support electoral reform, the highest level ever. That includes a majority of voters from every political party.”
#PR
labourlist.org/2026/02/labo...
#PR
labourlist.org/2026/02/labo...
'Labour must confront the crisis of first past the post before it’s too late' - LabourList
First past the post is fuelling distrust, fragmentation and instability. If Labour is serious about democratic renewal, it must lead the case for electoral reform now
labourlist.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Labour leadership, faced with a choice between electoral reform backed by its own members or retention of a system which risks giving absolute power to a party which doesn’t even believe in democracy as we know it.
Why is this a hard choice?
Why is this a hard choice?
Important information.
February 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Important information.
I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition asking the government to put climate before profit and end secret corporate courts – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
Stop secret corporate courts rewarding climate wreckers
Community action stopped the climate-wrecking Whitehaven coal mine. Now, its backers are suing the government in a secret corporate court – and UK taxpayers could pay millions. Polluters should never ...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
February 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition asking the government to put climate before profit and end secret corporate courts – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
Reposted
Labour govt policies have already caused a surge in suicides among trans young people, but it's not enough for ministers. When the Lemkin Institute warned of a genocide, they were referring to precisely this intentionality.
Labour continues to troll the trans community - and to prioritise pleasing the right wing press. We know Hilary Cass was selected for her transphobic views: Kemi Badenoch told us exactly that.
So why is she running trans policy for Labour?
So why is she running trans policy for Labour?
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Labour govt policies have already caused a surge in suicides among trans young people, but it's not enough for ministers. When the Lemkin Institute warned of a genocide, they were referring to precisely this intentionality.
Reposted
"The Bill adds economic interests, but still leaves out environmental interests entirely. Why?"
Big thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & Baroness Freeman for making ace points in yday's debate on extending Community Right to Buy to environmental assets 1/
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
Big thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & Baroness Freeman for making ace points in yday's debate on extending Community Right to Buy to environmental assets 1/
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
February 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
"The Bill adds economic interests, but still leaves out environmental interests entirely. Why?"
Big thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & Baroness Freeman for making ace points in yday's debate on extending Community Right to Buy to environmental assets 1/
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
Big thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & Baroness Freeman for making ace points in yday's debate on extending Community Right to Buy to environmental assets 1/
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
actionnetwork.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Excellent article.
"This is why I am launching a campaign to bring back the Department of Culture. Britain’s creative industries are worth nurturing. Our broadcast environment is worth protecting. The internet is too important to be left unregulated."
"This is why I am launching a campaign to bring back the Department of Culture. Britain’s creative industries are worth nurturing. Our broadcast environment is worth protecting. The internet is too important to be left unregulated."
(Outburst prompted by this piece: thecritic.co.uk/bring-back-d... )
Bring back DCMS | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
We are now a year and a half into Keir Starmer’s government. The Prime Minister said on Tuesday that 2026 would be the year voters would start to see results. But one thing is already clear: his…
thecritic.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Excellent article.
"This is why I am launching a campaign to bring back the Department of Culture. Britain’s creative industries are worth nurturing. Our broadcast environment is worth protecting. The internet is too important to be left unregulated."
"This is why I am launching a campaign to bring back the Department of Culture. Britain’s creative industries are worth nurturing. Our broadcast environment is worth protecting. The internet is too important to be left unregulated."
Reposted
Local government reorganisation should not be rushed through from the centre and dressed up as devolution. Change can work — but only when it has local consent.
If ministers truly believe in devolution, they must trust communities to shape their own future.
#LocalDemocracy #Devolution
If ministers truly believe in devolution, they must trust communities to shape their own future.
#LocalDemocracy #Devolution
February 12, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Local government reorganisation should not be rushed through from the centre and dressed up as devolution. Change can work — but only when it has local consent.
If ministers truly believe in devolution, they must trust communities to shape their own future.
#LocalDemocracy #Devolution
If ministers truly believe in devolution, they must trust communities to shape their own future.
#LocalDemocracy #Devolution
Reposted
I wrote an op-ed for the @bmj.com on the UK government's national security assessment on ecosystem collapse and how we need act.
This report was released last week, delayed by months—allegedly it was seen as too negative by number 10—and abridged🧵
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
This report was released last week, delayed by months—allegedly it was seen as too negative by number 10—and abridged🧵
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Ecosystem destruction will force the UK to tackle food security
The UK’s approach to food makes it increasingly vulnerable in an unstable world. A great food transformation with a focus on resilience is urgently needed, argues Paul Behrens
Last week the UK gover...
www.bmj.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I wrote an op-ed for the @bmj.com on the UK government's national security assessment on ecosystem collapse and how we need act.
This report was released last week, delayed by months—allegedly it was seen as too negative by number 10—and abridged🧵
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
This report was released last week, delayed by months—allegedly it was seen as too negative by number 10—and abridged🧵
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Reposted
UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
Reposted
Supreme Court’s ruling in Scotland makes it crystal clear that collective worship in schools can breach children’s rights even where a parental opt-out exists. Well done @humanistsociety.bsky.social for leading the campaign for reform. Education should be inclusive by design, not exception.
Major warning to Scotland about Supreme Court ruling on school worship
Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) has warned that Scottish schools risk ‘sleepwalking into legal cases’ if the Scottish Government fails to introduce an independent right for pupils to opt out of religi...
humanists.uk
February 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Supreme Court’s ruling in Scotland makes it crystal clear that collective worship in schools can breach children’s rights even where a parental opt-out exists. Well done @humanistsociety.bsky.social for leading the campaign for reform. Education should be inclusive by design, not exception.
Reposted
Exactly so. A party that is abolishing jury trials, steadily criminalising protest, doubling-down on austerity in the name of fiscal rules, and talks of “an island of strangers” or “hard-working families”
is not left, or even centre.
Labour and Reform’s relationship looks increasingly symbiotic.
is not left, or even centre.
Labour and Reform’s relationship looks increasingly symbiotic.
Robert Peston, "Wouldn't you regret Reform UK coming through in Gorton and Denton if The Greens split the left vote?"
Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"
Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Exactly so. A party that is abolishing jury trials, steadily criminalising protest, doubling-down on austerity in the name of fiscal rules, and talks of “an island of strangers” or “hard-working families”
is not left, or even centre.
Labour and Reform’s relationship looks increasingly symbiotic.
is not left, or even centre.
Labour and Reform’s relationship looks increasingly symbiotic.
Reposted
This is the simple response to the 'splitting the vote narrative.' Labour are not left-wing. Green isnt splitting the left vote, it is the only left wing option.
Robert Peston, "Wouldn't you regret Reform UK coming through in Gorton and Denton if The Greens split the left vote?"
Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"
Zack Polanski, "We cannot say that Keir Starmer's Labour would be a left wing vote"
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 AM
This is the simple response to the 'splitting the vote narrative.' Labour are not left-wing. Green isnt splitting the left vote, it is the only left wing option.
Reposted
‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 AM
‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
Reposted
This obnoxious, tax-avoiding, entitled, f*ckwit doesn't even live in the UK, having shipped out to Monaco
There is no good side to capitalism, but this dismal billionaire epitomises the very worst of this greed-based, exploitative, destructive, system
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
There is no good side to capitalism, but this dismal billionaire epitomises the very worst of this greed-based, exploitative, destructive, system
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
This obnoxious, tax-avoiding, entitled, f*ckwit doesn't even live in the UK, having shipped out to Monaco
There is no good side to capitalism, but this dismal billionaire epitomises the very worst of this greed-based, exploitative, destructive, system
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
There is no good side to capitalism, but this dismal billionaire epitomises the very worst of this greed-based, exploitative, destructive, system
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Reposted
Remember when we all got mad that Israel was imposing a starvation blockade on Gaza? The US is doing the SAME THING to Cuba and hardly anyone is talking about it.
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Remember when we all got mad that Israel was imposing a starvation blockade on Gaza? The US is doing the SAME THING to Cuba and hardly anyone is talking about it.
Reposted
Ireland has shown that basic income works — not just socially, but economically.
Give people time and security to develop their skills, and the returns flow back to society. Now let’s go further.
#UniversalBasicIncome #Economics
Give people time and security to develop their skills, and the returns flow back to society. Now let’s go further.
#UniversalBasicIncome #Economics
February 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ireland has shown that basic income works — not just socially, but economically.
Give people time and security to develop their skills, and the returns flow back to society. Now let’s go further.
#UniversalBasicIncome #Economics
Give people time and security to develop their skills, and the returns flow back to society. Now let’s go further.
#UniversalBasicIncome #Economics
Reposted
Says the gazillionaire who loves Britain so much he became tax resident in Monaco so he didn't have to contribute to Britain's resources. Physician, heal thyself.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Says the gazillionaire who loves Britain so much he became tax resident in Monaco so he didn't have to contribute to Britain's resources. Physician, heal thyself.